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To be fair in a dynamic typed language with dumb string to int coercions, I kinda get why such a library would exists. So it's more a symptom of terrible language design than modern dependency hell.
If string return nan, else % 2
Dependency chain: is-even depends on is-odd which depends on is-number
So now you return a number type if it's a string and a boolean if it's an integer. How does that make sense?
The is-even lib exists to sanitize input by throwing an exception which imho is better.
Edit: having looked at the code better. Apparently it still allows string coercion (boo). It only checks for non integer numbers.
Good point, but you can do if === true... and else if === false...
But definitely better to throw an error instead of nan.